Hounsom Memorial Church

Hove was a village and parish that developed rapidly as a residential area in the 19th century in response to the growth of neighbouring Brighton. The Union Chapel, founded in the 17th century in Brighton, extended its mission to Hove in 1823, when some members established a Sunday school and temporary place of worship in a building belonging to local resident John Vallance. The congregation grew, and land was bought in 1861 for a permanent church in the rapidly developing Cliftonville area of Hove. Cliftonville Congregational Church was designed by Horatio Nelson Goulty and opened in 1870 as the first Nonconformist church in the town. The church's local influence grew, and in 1899 it…

is represented in bas-relief form at the top of the tower.]] The brief given to John Leopold Denman by the founders was specific: the new church had to be "...unlike a 15th-century church or a Nonconformist chapel or a cinema, but [instead] a modern type of building in keeping with the area". lit by small clerestory windows at the top of the aisles. The walls are of "mottled" red brick made at the Ringmer brickworks in East Sussex; the red roof tiles were also produced there. A stubby tower topped with a shallow pantile-covered spire stands at the north end; this has three "startling" bas-relief representations of Saint Christopher, a pelican and a lamb—the latter two representing sacrifice…